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Today’s links All the books I reviewed in 2024: Plus three of my own. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcoming…
Continue Reading Pluralistic: All the books I reviewed in 2024 (02 Dec 2024)
NaNo Oh No A nonprofit writing organization that hosts an annual month-long novel write-a-thon has released its new position on artificial intelligence — and writers are clowning on its incredibly…
Last month, we reported that the lock screens of Amazon Kindles were displaying ads for what were obviously AI-generated books, leading to an outcry from readers on social media. At…
Amazon has been a huge staging ground for the proliferation of AI-generated spam. In fact, as we noticed earlier this year, its marketplace has already started to fill up with…
just a totally real author with a totally real nameMeet Jason N. Martin N. Martin, the author of the exciting and dynamic Amazon bestseller “How to Talk to Anyone: Master…
Today’s links All the books I reviewed in 2023: Plus three of my own. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2018, 2022 Colophon:…
Who Woulda Thunk Exit: books. Enter: thunks. Or so says Peter Wang, PyScript inventor and the cofounder and CEO of the open-source Python platform Anaconda. In a recent post to…
Follow Suit Last month, a group of high profile authors announced they were suing ChatGPT-makers OpenAI for training its large language models (LLMS) on their books. John Grisham, a bestselling…
It seems that scammers who use AI to mimic actual human writers are getting smarter, after a British journalist found a memoir that bore a shocking resemblance to his own…
Phantom Thread If you’re considering a foray into amateur mushroom foraging, maybe reconsider shopping for your beginner’s guide on Amazon. As the just-launched 404 Media reports, Amazon is riddled with…